I'm a native English speaker.I took 3 years of Latin - forgot it all.I took 1 year of Japanese - I can count to 10 (ichi, ni, san . . .) and remember about a dozen other words.I took 2 years of Spanish - can't speak it, but can read ~75% and understand quite a bit.I took 2 semesters (in college) of ASL, but I only remember a tiny bit of that, as well.

Off and on, my parents teach my brothers and me some of their native languages. The languages aren't really something you can speak fluently at this age, you'd have to grow up speaking it, but knowing phrases and being able to hold some kind of conversation is nice.

With the spanish thing...well you can't say I don't try. *shakes head* I'm one of those annoying people who bursts out into random[broken] spanish in conversation. Except...I don't do it to seem cool, mock, or whatever reasons other people do it. I do it as practice! And then people laugh at me and it's discouraging, but also encouraging because ONE DAY! I will master the spanish language...or get desperate and switch to portuguese or american aign language[LOL]

Tagalog- Philippine language. I'm starting to get KINDA fluentSpanish- I'm learning, amigo. I took that for my lanuages, though I wish they had Japanese in that school...it was either German or SpanishEnglish- Duh.and some French. I learned in fourth grade and I know a few...things.

As some member has said in a previous post, to keep a language you must use it, otherwise you'll start forgetting things about it. What i do with english is read and listen anything in english as much as i can, i visit english sites, and i try to write in english, but i also watch movies in english and listen to a lot of english music.

But if you want to improve your spanish you shouldn't use novelas to practice it, sometimes they use weird words and expressions